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tnent. I should like to add to this, that, durin;cr the past winter. I 

 have been hylievnating larvfe of Aci'lolia tn)it'ini>iata, A. rf»>ittota. and 

 A. rustiiata. all of which have gone through the winter similarly, they 

 are all feeding now. but very slowly. — T. A. Lokthotsk. F.E.S.. The 

 Croft. Liuthorpe. ^Iiddlesborough. Ai>n'l St/i. 1901. 



The spring here, for lepidoptera. at any rate, appears to be a very 

 late one. During Easter week there was nor an evening tit for sallow 

 work, but during the two following ones the evenings have been more 

 favourable, although insects appear to be very scarce. .\ visit to the 

 woods on April 11th resulted only in the capture of a few each of 

 Taeniocanipa ijotliica, T. [.iilierHlcuta, and /. stahilif, all in good condi- 

 tion, and one beautiful freshly-emerged f^acli)iohia nibricoxa, the latter 

 species usually common in the locality worked. Nearer home on April 

 13th and 11th, a few Taoiincainfia iiotliiio. /'. stabilis, T. iuilrt'n(h')ita, 

 tno T. i)i>ttahilis, and one 7'. (gracilis, were taken. The prospects for 

 the season so far do not appear to be bright. — (Rkv.) E. C. Dobree 

 Fox. ^I.A.. Castle Moreton Vicarage. Tewkesbury. April 16th, 1901. 



Larv.f, of Plcsia moneta, etc. — I have only to note that just 

 recently I have cleared my Acnititmn plants of the larva^ of I'liisia inonrta 

 for the benefit of the members of our local entomological society, and 

 especially of the plants themselves. None were found on the del- 

 phiniums, and I hope that, this season, they will continue to leave 

 them alone. I have larvfe of PJii>nnfes))ia sniaragdaria nearly full-fed. 

 and moved them recently from the plant on which they have been 

 sleeved all the winter, into an old breeding-cage. I soon noticed that 

 one looked badly ichneumoned, but a close examination proved that it 

 had only decorated itself with some empty ichneumon cocoons that had 

 not been removed from a corner of the cage. — E. A. Bo\\xes. M.A. 

 .Ua// 23 >v/, 1901. 



Sprin<t Lepidoptera at Hyeres. — I spent about three weeks (from 

 March 2Sth to April 16th last) at Hyeres. Butterflies, although 

 rather late, were certainly plentiful, and I obtained almost all the 

 species one could expect to get. including I'aiiilio poiialiriiis. /'. inaihoiut. 

 That's rxwina var. iiu-iiesicaste, with one specimen entirely without red 

 spots on upperside of superiors, a very rare form the authorities I met 

 with inform me, and T. poli/.rcna var. rassaiulra. Aiithochan'.s h,lia was 

 common, and from larvae left with ]Mr. Powell, I have bred the summer 

 form oKsoiiia since my return, all the pupa^ emerged. One could have 

 taken almost any number of Theatof balli(s, and. amongst those 1 netted. 

 was a specimen of each sex, with the spots on the underside of the 

 superiors coalesced: the uppersides varied also a good deal. 1 lu-ought 

 away eighteen larvje of Chara.vcs jasitis, and have since bi'ed from them 

 sufficient to form a series of magniticent specimens of this line butter- 

 fly. I was particularly pleased with the line Riviera form of Jhriit/iis 

 euphyosyne, hiili as large again as my English and Swiss examples, and 

 very bright in colour. Etalf-a-dozen female Kin-ldor enphcnoiiUs were 

 very welcome, the males were common during the latter part of my 

 stay. (Tnticptcri/.v cleopatra was, of course, plentiful, but most of them 

 were chipped, and I had great difficulty in obtaining sufficient good 

 ones for a series. Perhaps the rarest insect I came across was a female 

 of JJbiithra cdtis, which earned me the strong remonstrances of my 

 friend, Dr. C'hapman, for not saving it for ova ; as a matter of fact, 

 until 1 had it out of the net, 1 put it down as an example of I'^Uicionia 



